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However, Solam did not hold overly high expectations for the Hammer Guild. He hoped to gain the Hammer Guild's loyalty so Dark Fort could develop immediately. But if that did not work out, it was no big deal. At worst, he could just keep a low profile and develop slowly.

Dark Fort was merely an unexpected discovery to him. If it could be developed well, naturally that would be ideal, but if not, it did not matter much. The Tieflings here could take on some of the work too. Let the dwarves teach them gradually. Smithing and mining were, in the final analysis, mostly manual labor. As long as they worked hard enough to learn, they would eventually pick up something.

However, just when Solam thought everything had been resolved perfectly, the dwarves timidly and awkwardly made a request. They wanted him to find them wives!

It would have been better if they had said nothing. Once they did, Solam noticed that there was not a single female dwarf among them... They were all male...

Could it be... that Klauth was interested in female dwarves too?

Speaking of which, the wives these dwarves wanted could not be replaced by just any random women. Dwarven standards of beauty were notoriously bizarre across the entire continent.

For example, elves, humans, halflings, and even orcs all shared a broadly similar understanding of the word "beautiful." Their standards for beautiful women and handsome men might differ slightly, but they were generally consistent. Only dwarves were different—and very different.

To dwarves, beautiful women all fucking had beards...

This was also why dwarves rarely interbred with other races. They believed females of every other race suffered from a severe defect, one a hundred times worse than missing an arm or a leg: they had no beards...